Storm-hat



(No Model.)

H. M. SAWYER.

STORM, HAT.

No. 317,677. Patented May 12 1885-.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOWARD M. SAWYER, OF MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

' STORM-HAT.

SPECIPICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 317,677, dated May 12,1-883. Application filed March 27, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWARD M. SAWYER, of Medford, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Storm-Hats, of which the following is a specification.

This improvement relates to that class of waterproof hats especiallyadapted for the use of seamen and others whose business or avocationinvolves exposure to the weather, known as storm-hats or souwesters andits object is to provide a hat blocked or formed into the shape shown,whereby the face may be protected from the direct action of the rain orsnow without interfering with the ability of the wearer to look aloft,and which will also guide the water to and shed it from the rear edge ofthe hat-rim.

Great difficulty has heretofore been experienced in constructing a hatwhich will produce all the above results, as if the rim is bent down infront, while the rain is prevented from driving against the face ofthewearer, he cannot look aloft, and also the water drips over the frontand side edges as well as the rear edge ofthe rim 3 and, on the otherhand, if the front portion of the rim is bent up at the point where itjoins the body of the hat, while the wearer can look aloft, and thewater is to some extent conducted back from the front, the face of thewearer is completely exposed to the driving rain or snow.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of referenceindicate like parts, Figure l is a view in perspective of a stormhat orsouwester embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal verticalsection of the same. Fig. 3 is' a transverse vertical section.

A represents the body of the hat, and B the rim, both made of oiled orwater-proof material. This rim is blocked and formed into the shapeshown--that is to say, with its front portion, 13, first bent downwardand slightly bulged outward, and then bent upward at B, thus forming thechannel or gutter a, and with its rear portion, 13, much broader thanthe 'front, and bent downward continuously, and

without any channel or gutter at its edge. The sides of the rim growmore narrow toward the front, and the channel or gutter a graduallygrows more shallow from the front rearward until it ceases entirely, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2. By bending the rim downward at B the rain orsnow is prevented from driving against the face by bending it upward atB the wearer is enabled to look aloft; and by sloping the rear portioncontinuously downward the graduated channel or gutter a conducts thewater to the rear and discharges it on the cape of the wearer.

As the hat is blocked into the form shown, it will always remain inshape.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described improved storm-hat provided'with the rim B, havingits front portion bent downward at B and upward at B,

having its rear portion, B bent continuously downward, and provided witha graduated channel or gutter, at, extending from the front edge of therim toward, but not around, the rear edge of the same, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

HOWARD M. SAWYER. Witnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH ISHBAUGH.

